After Marlon Byrd's two-run single to left-center, Frank Catalanotto grounded to the mound.

Bonderman had plenty of time to make the play, but in a play that immediately brought back memories of last October, he threw wildly to first, allowing Sosa to score.

"That's the thing that bothered me," Bonderman said. "I worked hard all through spring training, and today I make an error that basically cost us the game. You can't give teams extra outs."

Adam Melhuse made it 4-1 with a single, but Catalanotto ran through a stop sign at third and was out by several feet.

"That error was huge," Texas manager Ron Washington said. "It lets us poke two more runs on the plate. There's a big difference between a 2-1 game and a 4-1 game, especially against that team."

By that point, the Tigers had already blown their shot against Texas starter Kameron Loe.

Eighteen days after the Tigers gave him one of the worst beatings of his career, Loe (4-6) was struggling again against the same team.

This time, though, he escaped jams in the first two innings in his third straight strong outing since allowing nine runs in 2 2/3 innings against Detroit on June 7. He allowed two runs and seven hits in seven innings to record his third win in a row. He walked two and struck out one.

"They beat me around pretty good the last time, so I had some incentive tonight," Loe said after snapping Detroit's seven-game winning streak. "This is a nice win for me."

The Tigers took a 1-0 lead on Carlos Guillen's bases-loaded sacrifice fly with one out in the first, but could have built a much bigger lead in the first two innings.

"Getting out of those two innings were definitely big," Loe said. "I felt good about the first inning and only giving up one run, but the second inning was much better. That could have been bad, but I was able to execute a couple big pitches."

Granderson's 14th triple of the season made it 4-2 in the seventh, but Polanco grounded out to end the inning.

Byrd and Young had RBI singles in the ninth, and Jerry Hairston Jr. added a two-run homer. Young had three hits.

Notes

Brad Wilkerson and Kinsler collided going for a fourth-inning pop-up into shallow right, but neither player was injured and Wilkerson was able to hang on to the ball.

Carlos Guillen, named American League player of the week earlier Monday, extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a sixth-inning single.

Both teams arrived in Detroit in the early hours of Monday morning, and the Rangers skipped batting practice to get some extra rest. "That didn't have anything to do with the game," Leyland said. "We got here at 2:30 and they got here at 6. We just got beat."

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